Clothes-pounder.



B. H. WILSON. CLOTHES POUNDER. APPLIOATION TILED DBO. 11,1912.

1,078,183. Patented N0v.11,19 13.

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BEN H. WILSON, or PORTLAND, oaneon.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 11, 1912.

Patented Nov. 11,1913. Serial No. 736,201.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BEN H. WILSON, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to improvement in clothes-pounders of the manually operated t e.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction to meet the requirements of an extended use of articles of t-h'ischar acter. I

The object of the invention is to construct an article of the character named that is easily portable, that may be carried" in a trunk or readily packed in boxes with other household goods and utensils. This I accomplish by the construction of a jointed handle attached to the main body of the pounder as hereinafter described.

Another object of the invention is to provide a construction whereby the-compound parts may be operative together and at the same time be separable so that each part may be operated singly bythe use of a single handle.

Other and further objects will be hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1, is a broken-away vertical sectional view of my device taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2, Fig. 2, is a bottom plan view of the device, Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the device complete ready for use, including the compound features, showing the inner construction by dotted lines, Fig. 4, is a side elevation of the device complete, with the larger main body only connected to the handle, ready for use as a single pounder, and Fig. 5, is a side elevation of the device complete, with the smaller main body only connected to the handle, ready for use as a single pounder.

Conical hollow bodies 10 and 11 are provided, the former with a tubular handle socket 12 at its apex, and the latter with a rod extension 13 at its apex. The inner walls of the conical bodies 10 and 11 may or may not be equipped with the semi-conical sheet metal members 14 forming the vertically disposed air chambers 15 or the air inlets 16, as desired.

A handle, preferably of tubular metal construction is formed of sections 17 and 18, the latter being provided with a threaded end. 19 adapted for entering a threaded aperture 20 in the lower end of the portion 17. The conical body 11 is adapted for occupying a position within the conical body 10 as shown inFig. 3 wit-h its lower ex:

tremity 11* preferably stopping short of the lower extremity 10 of the conical body 10.

When the compound features are all assembled for working condition they are as shownin Figs. 1 and 'The rod extension 13 at the apex of the conical body 11 extending upwardly into the tubular section ,18 of the handle, the tubular section 18 beend 23 of the lever 23 may pass and come into locking engagement with the outer surface of the rod extension 13 and the handle socket 12 as shown in Fig. 1.

When the levers 23 are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the parts are locked in rigid relation witheach other. When it is desired to release the said locking engagement, the levers 23 are normally thrown to the position shown by the dot-ted lines 23 of Fig. 1, when the parts'may be separated and the conical body 11 and the handle portions 17 and 18 removed and then the parts reassembled either in compound relation as shown in Fig. 3 or in separate relation as shown ineither Figs. 4: or 5.

When it is desired to prepare the article for convenient transportation or for packing, the handle portions 17 and 18 are removed from the conical bodies 10 and 11, and then the parts 17 and 18 separated at the threaded connection 19 and 20, when the same may be packed in a comparatively small space. The tubular portion 18 is plugged at the top as at 25 to prevent any water from escaping into the handle Portion 17. The handle portion 17 may be provided witha suspending means, such as a ring 26 at the top thereof which will readily engage a hook or a nail.

When the parts are assembled as a compound article as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the same amount of work will produce nearly double the effectiveness in removing dirt from clothes that would be produced with a single conical body as a pounding means. The smaller conical body 11, when operated separately, enables the use of the same in a small space, such as in a wash basin and is convenient for travelers, campers and others who must move from place to place and are not provided with the conveniences of a tub or the like."

What I claim is, I

l. A clothes pounder, comprising similar conical bodies, one occupying a position within the other, the inner one having a rod extension at its apex and the outer one having a tubular socket extension at its apex, a tubular handle portion engaging the said rod extension and the said tubular socket extension together with means for locking the same in such positions.

2. A clothes pounder, comprising similar conical bodies one occupying a position BEN H. WILSON.

lVitnesses WJLLIAM H. KAYE, GEO. E. LANFIEL.

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' Washington, D. G. 

